Family anger at C. diff 'secret'

The family of a Londonderry woman who died after contracting the C. difficile bug at Altnagelvin hospital has hit out at the way she was treated.

Dorothy Wray, from Kimberley Hill in the Waterside, died in February - six months after being admitted to hospital following a fall.

Her granddaughter, Joanne, said the hospital did not tell other patients what her grandmother had contracted.

"There didn't seem to be any attempts to isolate the ward," she said.

"We feel very strongly that my grandmother was on a ward with other patients who were not aware."

A hospital spokesman said patients were moved to single isolation rooms as soon as was possible.

"We are challenged with a 40-year-old hospital," he said.

"There are not enough isolation rooms, but that is being remedied."

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